Don't Let Me Be Lonely
An American Lyric

If I could, I would give this book ten stars. It is an amazing, lyrical meditation on loneliness, death, and American after 9/11 with an interesting thread throughout about pharmaceuticals and mental health. This is a superlative book of prose poetry. I found myself marking nearly every page with an......more

It felt to me like a performance about many things. I think it is because of the pictures, or something about mixing media that makes it complete to me. It's about life, sickness, death, politics, family, there are so many more things, and it's written in poetic, or beautiful fragments, but it kept......more

As a literary genre still fighting for an ironic legitimacy, prose poetry received a Hail Mary the length of Doug Flutie's 1986 game-winning touchdown pass when Claudia Rankine published this book. Not since I first discovered Baudelaire or Carolyn Forché have I felt I understood what "real" or "goo......more

This is a really hard book to describe. It lies somewhere between essay and poetry. The themes are those of grief, death, toxicity, medication, race, bewilderment. The writing is absolutely exquisite. This book blew me away. I highly recommend it.......more

Qué maldita maravilla. Una lección de qué sí hacer con el multiformato (materialmente, mixed media o como le digan), pero más: con las ideas que oscilan alrededor del nodo que es el yo, un yo nunca (¡pero nunca de los nuncas!) desvinculado, siempre un yo frente a otras, junto a otras, antes, después......more